Underworld Don Delillo by Don Delillo 9781416548645, 1416548645 instant download after payment.

A finalist for the National Book Award, Underworld is Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel — “a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle). 

Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times.  Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome - the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World - shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb.  With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, “this is DeLillo’s most affecting novel…a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). 

"Underworld surges with magisterial confidence through time (the last half century) and through space (Harlem, Phoenix, Vietnam, Kazakstan, Texas, the Bronx), mingling fictional characters with various heroes of cultural history (Sinatra, Hoover, Lenny Bruce). But its true loci are ‘the white spaces on the map,’ the test sites, and its main actors are psychological ‘downwinders,’ victims of the fallout from all the blasts—blasts actual and imagined. DeLillo, the poet of paranoia and the ‘world hum,’ pursues his theme unstridently; he is tenacious without being tendentious."  -  Martin Amis, The New York Times

Don DeLillo is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Among the most influential American writers of the past decades, DeLillo has received, among author awards, a National Book Award (White Noise, 1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award (Mao II, 1991), and an American Bo